In the summer of 1896, African American communities across the United States mounted a broad and determined response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, handed down weeks earlier in ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed was an illegal racial gerrymander.

Case Insights Missouri judge orders St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. to pay nearly $44 million to Ryan Ferguson and officers after company's three-year resistance to coverage obligations.